gregorygalloway:

O Brother, Where Art Thou? was first screened at the Cannes Film Festival on 13 May 2000.

With a plot taken from Homer and a title taken from Preston Sturges (1941′s Sullivan’s Travels), the Coen Brothers’ 8th feature film included many cast and crew they had worked with previously, including cinematographer Roger Deakins (5th film with the brothers), John Turturro (4th film), John Goodman (3rd film), Charles Durning (2nd), and Holly Hunter (2nd).

Music was integral to the story from the start, and the soundtrack was recorded before filming even started.

The film was released in the US in December, and was a commercial and critical success, nominated for 2 Academy Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Cinematography. It did not receive an Oscar.

The soundtrack (released in December) topped the US Billboard charts and received the Album of the Year Grammy Award in 2002 (only the 2nd soundtrack to receive the award), and Ralph Stanley received the Grammy for Best Male Country Vocal Performance for “O, Death.” The soundtrack was also named Album of the Year at the Academy of Country Music Awards and International Bluegrass Music Awards. It has sold more than 8 million copies.

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director: Ben Stiller

O Brother, Where Art Thou?(2000)
dir. Joel Coen

Severance(2022– )
dir. Ben Stiller and Aoife McArdle

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dir. Matt Reeves

John Turturro for Vogue, 1990

Gabriel ByrneandJohn Turturro for Vogue, 1990

John Turturro, early 1990s

John Turturro at the Cannes Film Festival (1991) | Awarded for Best actor in Barton Fink

John Turturro in The Luzhin Defence (2000)

John Turturro at the 2017 US Open